So what's the /v/erdict?

>>386748545
It's shit.

>>386748545
Feels like more of the same shit desu.

It's fun for now, but I see myself getting tired of it in a week or so.

I'm having fun

>>386748545
Its a top down isometric loot based ARGP with large a passive skill tree and a focus on customization.

Like D3 but with more of an emphasis on RPG mechanics.

>>386748545

It's pretty fun. Feels a lot more complete with the new acts.

Spiking damage is still kinda tiresome, but, that's just how the game works.

Harbinger league is really boring. Hope they do something to mix it up, but, probably too late at this point.

really offput with the harbinger gumball shit

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>>386748545
it's okay
/v/ is full of casuals that cant even get to endgame content
the same faggots that cant play dota or anything competitive for that matter

I'm enjoying it.
Seems a lot easier than it used to be but the added content is pretty nice. I stopped playing before awakening so theres a lot to do thats new for me.

>>386749000
>gumball shit
I dont understand what this means

how do people play the same """"campaign"""(kill this, go there) multiple times just so they can get better gear to make more damage to play the same campaign again?

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Whats a simple and cheap build for retarded beginner?

>>386749062
>the same faggots that cant play dota or anything competitive for that matter
lol only faggots play dota 2 and it isn't even competitive you drooling fucking mongoloid, but, go ahead, fuck off to your highly anticipated card game.

>>386748545

Harbinger makes me miss Legacy League. Otherwise its nice that theres more variety in leveling before maps.

Music is alright in new Acts, Kamil Orman Janowski has clearly been improving.

https://youtu.be/LWCUIa_NTVw

>>386749113
Instead of giving you a dollar bill I'm going to give you 1 dime, 13 nickles, and 25 pennies.

>>386749250
Sunder Dual Wield Gladiator
Sunder only uses your main hand so you can use a cheap off hand as a stat stick

Its what I'm rolling, and you can fund it to map effectively for only ~5-10c, and you'll find that just by leveling.

Currently doing tier 10 maps without issue using 5 link armor.

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>>386748545
>Leaks suggested that there would be changes to make managing spectres not complete ass
>All they did for Oriath was up spectres' speed cap

I'm going to be waiting forever, aren't I?

>>386748545
Faaaking 10/10.

Best feature:
Taking a huge steaming DUMP on Blizzards D3. I hope kottick necks himself over this, and when Hearthstone dies to dotastone.

>>386749250
>>386749445
See this for a good example;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhdy-EVNBLI

I use advancing fortress as my offhand since it gives +15% block but otherwise is largely the same as the video.

>>386749445
My nigga

Its a perfect league starter. Im going to see how far I can push it then swap to some dumb build like Glacial Cascade mines

>>386749460

Playing Summoner myself and both Zombies and Skellies kill everything hilariously fast if they manage to encircle the target, especially with Spirit Offering. Not just mobs but Act bosses too, go down superfast. Those bare zombie hands hurt more than most of the weapons you find with melee classes.

Balance-wise its understandable because minions require both setup and positioning to be effective, so of course they need to be stronger in damage than way easier skills. Kinda wished they would've been buffed to be more versatile than just straight up damage buffs, make them like walking totems essentially with different effects.

>>386749250
maybe gladiator focusing on block chance + Bringer of Rain to pump up that DPS with any meele or semi meele skill

but you'll git gud making mistakes, when you actually put thought in your own build you'll archive greatness

technically you have to win the game before even beginning

>>386749749
Minions are only as good as their ai, unfortunately. Skeletons could have 1000% more damage and still be useless.

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>>386749250
Scorching Ray Inquisitor

>>386749250
SRS necro
you hide behind a bunch of zombies so you are safe most of the time while your raging spirits shred everything on screen

only unique you need to buy is the covenant and that's super cheap. later when you have currency you can get the baron and push for 1000 strength for a massive power spike.

Newfag to the game here, why exactly were merciless and cruel difficulties removed?

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>>386749984

It just dies and zombies are shit....

>>386749897

Dark Pact makes them living Contagion-explosions and you can clearly see the focus they've shifted on Minions and how they prefer for you to use Damage Over Time skills with them.

If Minions would have better ways to taunt and aggro enemies, then they would be very powerful but a very slow way to clear the content. First blind run of 3.0 I had the unique ring which gives 25% chance of taunt for your Golem, and as a result Act 8 and Act 9 endbosses were easy because half the time they were busy trying to kill my golem instead of me.

Now have some ability which gives the same effects to skellies alongside with the Offering that allows them to block damage and spells and you could have a very effective taunt wall.

>>386750107
Would you rather play the same 3 or 4 acts x3 or have one longer campaign that doesnt have repeating content?

>>386750107
because you did literally the exact same thing three times, which sucked ass

>>386750107
Because replaying the same game 3 times is a lot more boring than playing through 10 acts that further the story.

There are still merciless and cruel labyrinths and maps so nothings changed other than the fact you arent replaying the same story over and over until you get to maps finally.

>>386750107
They were content placeholders for the introduction of later acts. When there were only 3 acts the progression was normal, cruel, ruthless, merciless.

Tornado shot builds are squishy as fuck and kinda pricey this league for no apparent reason.

What's a good really tanky build?

What are some good starter SSF builds?

>>386749576
Damn this shit looks good but I don't really want to level a character again
Wish I didn't start with a totem build it gets old fast

>>386750205
Ya, try decoy totem. The little bastards lets you cheese bosses

>>386750107

Because the Poe team always dreamed of doing 10 Acts instead of 4, because most casuals clear the story content of the game and quit playing afterwards. Now the casuals are going to stick around to level 68 instead of little over 30.

Fuck tusgaoth as a es build.

That end part with the minuscule arena and the random lightning ripped my ass open.

>>386750261
RF Chad

Expansion is great, fotm league is bad.

>>386748545
Asking /v/, a place full of casual shitters, about a game like PoE

Don't be silly now.

>>386750404
Not him but the funny thing with RD is that if you remove the RF then suddenly you are immune to lab. Always fun

>>386750491
RD?

>>386750264

Very basic and safe builds with tons of Life/ES. If its your first time, ranged is a safer way to play than melee. Totems are very effective with solo builds because they can deal damage to bosses while you're busy dodging their abilities and they can also taunt enemies sometimes and ease off some of the pressure from your back.

Tried picking it up again after not playing for two years. It is so fucking boring. I don't think it will ever be able to grab me but I wish it could.

lagging constantly

>>386750250
>>386750257
Ahh, gotcha.

For endgame what resist do I need? 95%?

>>386750687
14 buhgorillion

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>>386748545
>level up passives
>can only play one type of build because you're fucked with gear/sockets/passives

this is the reason why 80% of diablo players beat all acts and 80% of poe players didn't even beat act 3

>>386750687
169% total

>>386749216

Autists and poor people.

they servers are still shit

>>386750734
Its also the reason why D3 ends up being boring as shit once you settle on you build for GR.

Theres no feeling of growth when its all given to you, in poe your actually invested in your build and if you want a new one you make a new character

>>386750893
and new poe the engine is even more shit than before.

>>386750734
diablo doesn't offer anything but playing through the story once

How do I play as a ranged character?

>>386750687

After Act 5 its time for you to start capping resists if you can, some of the new bosses can get pretty brutal if you don't have your caps high enough.

Kripp had a first blind run of 3.0 with Whirlwind-Marauder and despite his insane damage he got destroyed in 1 second by Act 9 Solaris Temple boss and later Solaris herself in the Act boss.

>>386750264
Esence drain trickster.
Chieftain in general. Warchief totems work from the moment you get them. Anything fire on totems also works, but it'll take much longer for chieftain to reach fire damage passives.
Blade vortex, but you need to read up on how to stay alive.
Sunder slayer or berserker. Might try Earthquake later too. Might be a tad more troublesome for SSF though.
Necromancer. Unlike most other builds who spam right click, summoners have a ton of active skills to juggle.

>>386750971
anon they have 17 difficulties
seven-teen fucking difficulties

>tfw currently trying spectral throw in HC harbinger but it just doesn't feel that good

Heard the assassin class got nerfed with 3.0, how true is it? Just started one

>>386751023

Click on the monsters.

>>386751320

Double-dipping got nerfed, meaning Chaos-and Poison stuff isn't as overpowered and broken as it used to be.

>>386751379
Haha, so funny anon. I' talking about what builds to use, etc.

>>386751401
Can you explain poison double dipping in simple terms?

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When will GGG make Scion great again?

>>386750734
you can respec at a high cost faggot
but why would you know that
you're here just to complain

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>>386751230
WHAT??!
I haven't played D3 since launch since it was such a SHIT SHOW, but holy fucking hell, the people who say "They fixed everything!" are dissolutional as fuck.

>>386751320
Its still good, just not broken as fuck.

The nerf was valid, its not a bad thing

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>>386751601
you cant make this shit up

>>386751498
How it used to be
>weapon deals 100 base damage
>your +phys passives and other shenanigans bring it to 800
>poison takes that 800 as a reference point and deals chaos damage based on that
>poison further scales with chaos damage (which is on the same starting node as phys next to Shadow)

How it is now
>weapon deals 100 base damage
>poison damage is based on that 100
>weapon phys damage and poison chaos damage scale separately

>>386751601
That's shitposting you dumb nigger

Nobody has ever actually believed D3 is fixed

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>>386751789
I don't even know what to say.

>>386751789
It's a shit system but you don't have to play them all once like other ARPGS, you can change the difficulty anytime
Also the progression goes master > torment 6 > torment 10 > GR when you're playing normally

>>386751745
>>386751401
cool, like the assassin skills more than the gladiator ones so didn't want to restart because of an overly painful nerf

>>386750489
>implying PoE isn't casual garbage

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>>386751789
>2108607% HP

>>386748545
Good. The improved the graphics, the hud, the progression.
It is more polished now.

>>386751498

Same damage modifier applies twice to the same single damage source. Meaning your poison skill move damage bonus first applies to the initial hit, and then it also effects the "damage over time"-effect afterwards.

Here, this is how it looked like back in Breach league:

https://youtu.be/p9ZJtDxUe8w

With 3.0 you can't do this anymore so you can't break the game in half with Chaos or Bleed anymore.

it's a shame ignite got hit so hard with the dot changes

Yea it double dipped but when did you see a fireball kill shaper in 3 seconds like poison wanderfinder or Blade flurry assaasin

>>386751942

>It's a shit system but you don't have to play them all once like other ARPGS,

And now in PoE theres only one difficulty that goes straight to the lvl 68 and endgame. No difficulties needed. Way better system.

>>386748708
this

>>386751907
>100 hours in autoCAD

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Question for those that have palyed both d3 and poe
What's the best end game system?
Rifts or Maps?

>>386752508
Nobody in this thread is going to defend Diablo 3.

>>386751907
How DIN 883/880 work?

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>>386752094
I fucking miss doubledipping

>>386752508
The sole D3 intern did a great job of making some kind of endgame for the game.

>>386752606
Just got to twist it my mang
Also you have to believe in magic

>>386752606
You insert it in the holes and use bolts to fasten.

These arent screws you know

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>>386752630
>You will never be king of the forest again

For returning players, don't fall for storm burst. It's super fun at first and clears packs like nobody's business, but its single target falls WAY behind the curve as the game goes on. Plus it's channeled with almost no leech options, so you're a sitting duck. Bosses will be a nightmare with this.

>>386748545
Pretty good but going through acts 1-4 AGAIN just to get to the new content is very tedious... they should have made a jumpstart for players that already finished the game few times (for example start at act 4 with X skill points, lab unlocked and basic gear).

>>386752284
The campaign is still too long to play a second time. I wish once you made a lvl 68 on whatever league you're in, or completed some challange, you could make another one.

>>386752863
Act 3 now has just one sewers and no warehouses.

>>386752834
Had a friend fall for it, but lucky his tree was rather generalized so using only about 10 respec points he was able to totally change his setup.

>>386752863
1-2 were boring but if you know what you can skip it takes like 2 days to get to the new content if you dont play a shit load.

I stopped before the sceptre of god was even a thing so coming back has been awesome for me with all the new things in every area.

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>>386748545
>Follow the meta for a good build
>Must trade or your end build is shit
>What's fun this league is nerfed in the next

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>>386752508

Maps. PoE previously had a huge expansion that improved the endgame and gave it a progression system, separate story and a separate final boss. Goal is to fill this map by completing all maps and defeating their bosses (bonus defeat them in modified maps) and you get access to the final one. Most people play to see how far their new build gets here.

>>386753104
And the ride never ends. This is how p2w games stay alive.

>>386753126
this was a brilliant move from PoE
instead of mindlessly doing maps over and over, you get rewarded and you have actual progress to do

I'm glad they finally got rid of the double pyramid in A2 on the map.

I also just found out where the vaal pyramid actually is because I guess I'm retarded.

I really like maps and love how you actually travel a connected world in poe

>>386752508
Greater Rifts are pretty fun and challenging, unlike the entire rest of Diablo 3. They are the sole redeeming feature of the game. After a few times, though, you've seen all there is to see and it becomes a bit boring. Still, I challenge anyone on this board who thinks D3 is easy to make it past GR85.

I haven't made it to PoE end game yet to compare, just picked up the game and am working my way there. PoE feels so slow compared to D3, though. Tumbling all over the world at the speed of light as a Demon Hunter is something that no other ARPG seems to be able to match. Gotta go fast.

>>386752961
Yeah, I needed just 12 points to respec into blade vortex of all things. The build didn't have many lightning-specific passives.

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>>386753319
>no image
Fuck me right in the stank hole

>>386753238
>p2w

Hmm.

I can see if you're going to complain about stash tabs but how do balance changes make it p2w

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>mfw Perandus and Talisman havent been added to the core game

>>386753353
I made it well past GR85 long ago in D3. It was easy because it had easy itemization. Set armor makes the game a joke.

Try Raider or Flicker strike for gotta go fast builds.

>>386753398

where's oriath

>>386748545
buggy pile of turd

>>386753353
nah mang, you can go sonic in poe latter on, you can pick your own pase to do things

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>>386753126
>>386753314

Atlas of Worlds was the best update of 2016, especially with the addition of a true final boss to the game's story. It'd be nice if the Strand meta wasn't so prevalent, though.

>>386753583
>Try Raider or Flicker strike for gotta go fast builds.

Thanks bro, I will give them a try.

>>386753581
Talisman sucks.

I do miss my #1 jew

>>386753353
GR85 is just about getting a good weapon so you rape everything with your prebuilt set

>>386753584
The small island off the twilight strand.
Theopolis is the capital of oriath.

This game has a lot of backstory surprisingly.

>>386753353
PoE can play much MUCH faster then D3. D3 just lets you do it a bit sooner then PoE does (starts around mid game.)

>>386749921
How SRI this patch? Heard it got nerfed in 3.0.

>>386751789
What the actual fuck. Who the fuck would even enjoy that?

>>386752952
A blessed change indeed.
I'm currently at the last mission of act 3.

>>386753079
I don't like skipping missions, even if the reward is shit. I'm also one of the players who like to explore the whole level and find everything in it, but this urge is less strong than not skipping missions I can live without fully explore.

>>386753819
fuck I thought that they were separated things
god I'm retarded

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>>386752952
such a fucking release thank god

>>386750179
>zombies are shit
they just act as a meatshield to distract enemies while your raging spirits kill everything

then when you get the baron and montreguls grasp, zombies become extremely powerful.

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I don't understand shit about this game's story
First the game ended at Piety which was obviously lacking a proper final boss, then they added Dominus but he was still not the big bad.
Then with A4 Malachai the Nightmare came in, which should be the final boss but there's the Shaper which is infinitely more powerful than Malachai.
Now Oriath comes in with a literal who and he's more powerful than anyone for some reason and dies to power of friendship?

>>386748545
Is it just me, or did the game get WAY easier? Last time I played was when 2.0 came out, but I played a shit ton before that.

Like, I'm not even overleveled on HC and I haven't even come close to dying yet on act 6. Did the whole game become Normal difficulty? Actually, scratch that, I remember even Normal being harder than this shit.

>>386753692
>true final boss
>not even difficult
Mate.

>>386752952
I'm unironically glad they did that. Literally fuck those areas.

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You may only reply to this post and thereby join the ELITE CLUB if you play on HARDCORE and have previously

>reached level 95+
>done at least 36 out of 40 challenges in a given league
>killed (by yourself) uber atziri and the shaper

Are you man enough?
If not, you could always join the weenie club of pansies who play softcore.

>>386753918
Same here, I thought oriath was the mainland but it turns out wraeclast is and oriath was just a refugee island that thought they were hot shit because templars and gods and the whole fact that wreaclast was basically destroyed.

So your actually taking back wreaclast from the cataclysms that ravaged it for so long.

>>386753835
I didn't know it got nerfed. Scorching Ray is a bitch to level and it took a while for me to get good damage with it but now that my build is further along it's really good.

>>386753889
In practice there are only like 3 difficulties that are actually used by the majority of players: 7, 10, and 13 plus a few scattered on the lower difficulties for leveling. Blizzard doesn't know what the fuck they are doing.

>want to try new build
HAHA enjoy repeating the whole game again haha I'm having so much fun repeating the exact same shit over and over just to test different builds.

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>>386753353
You can go sanic fast in PoE as well, especially if you use Brightbeak and/or play the Raider ascendancy.

>>386754031
If you play pf and/or have done a shitload of Shaper runs of course he's going to be easy

>>386754025
Shaper is a side story

piety was some slut who was researching these gems that came from somewhere on that island
dominus was using these gems to become a god
malachai was using the power of "the beast" which was trapped in the mountain
when you killed the beast, the gods got out and stuff happens

>>386754027
Nope, its actually harder currently then what 2.5/2.6 was. Lots of broken things have been nerfed in to the ground and bosses' HP have been buffed across the board. Not to mention ES being mad gutted (needed to happen)

Likely you just have a good understanding of the game now and can make builds that can destroy content regardless of the rebalancing.

>>386754098
Last time I killed UberA back in, uhh... Cardio Pendarus, the Scammaster league, and did 99% of challenges way earlier. I'm playing Softcore for the story right now though, as they nerfed all my favorite shit to the ground (rip DoT ES witch), and I need to figure out how to procceed when I do my first HC run.

>>386753353
yeah you've clearly never had a end game poe character that can run as fast as flash through maps

>>386754257
>1 day of effort

Damn son you totally got me.

>>386754098
fuck that shit I'm playing on a toaster in a third world country, with brazil as the closest server
I literally cant play hardcore

>>386754308
Not even close honestly.

>>386754025
Just read the history on the wiki.

>>386754025
I don't actually know dominus's role but

Sin and Innocence and brothers, Sin was neglected as a child or something
Sin creates the Beast a his pet, this will suppress all the gods and goddesses so they all go to sleep

Malachi comes along and with his minions uses the thermaturgical energy of the beast to become like a god or something I think

Now that the beast is dead all the gods are back and fucking stuff up

That's my understanding

>>386754257
You can literally beat 10 acts in 1-2 days, mate. Especially if you know all the GOFAST tricks and don't play self-found.

>>386754257
Playing through act 1 to act 10 is a lot more fun than doing act 1 to 4 three times over

>>386754274
>that resolution
what kind of monitor even is that? Do they not sell real monitors in brazil?

>>386754274
I mostly play witch and shadow builds and I only died to shaper 3 times. He literally cannot kill you if you know the fight mechanics.

>new to the game so look up builds
>they all require a ridiculous item that only drops at level 50
I just want to complete the story using shit that drops

>>386754025

>Now Oriath comes in with a literal who and he's more powerful than anyone for some reason and dies to power of friendship?

The Beast was created by that black angel as a way to suppress gods. You kill Beast, Gods wake up and start wrecking shit again. Templars suddenly get a huge power-spike when Innocence wakes up, you beat Innocence and Kitava takes over the city and the Templars.

Gods power-level depends on how many followers or overall influence they have, which is why gods in Wraeclast are relatively weaker than Kitava, who is a God of Hunger and Cannibalism and just had the biggest, most populated city in the entire world as his eating buffet. If you wouldnt have killed the other gods, eventually they would have grown just as strong, Kitava just got a huge headstart. If Kitava would've awakened in Wraeclast, he would've been as weak the other gods simply for the lack of followers and people to eat.

>>386754586
No

And story goes to almost 70 anyway

>>386754586

>>386751138

>>386754586
Then do that.

I'm just rolling a easy mode build using stuff I find and am already A7 no sweat. Supposedly its a lot harder in 9-10 but I dont care, the maps are all that matters.

>>386754586
Do it then. Most builds are pretty viable at low level even without any of the required items. The items are just for getting the most from the build.

Alright I'm playing a Witch and planning on going Necro. The guide I'm following says I should get The Baron for fast leveling. Am I supposed to get it from the poe trade stuff? Or pray that one of the vendors has it?

>>386754586
Most builds have a budget variant. Especially if you don't go to literal build-ending things like curse/reflect maps, you can finish the game with almost everything. Hell, I did fucking lightning tendrills build back in the day. LIGHTNING TENDRILLS.

>>386754161

>Same here, I thought oriath was the mainland but it turns out wraeclast is and oriath was just a refugee island

Its easier to picture if you just think Wraeclast is Australia and Oriath is New Zealand. The lore is heavily influenced by the home country of the developers. I mean, Kitava is a name of an island of Papua, country known of its aboriginal tribes that practice cannibalism.

>>386754586
dont be silly anon even a retard with yellow gear can beat the game, also if your build needs a specific item you just compensate in your way though with a cheaper unique or yellow

>>386754746
I rolled a necro and its insanely easy without any specific gear past A5 for now.

>>386754746
The Baron helmet currently costs ~3 exalted orbs or ~200 Chaos orbs so throw that option out the window. If you're doing an SRS build you'll be fine without The Baron during leveling and early mapping

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>>386754746
You're not supposed to go for all the super optimized shit on your first run. Better advice would be to buy 2 lifesprigs (they cost 1alch-1c average).

>>386754764
Huh that makes a lot of sense actually.
Nice

>>386752952
>>386753910
>>386754007
>>386754090
>playing act 8
>enter the grain gate
>its just the warehouse district with a new name
>even has the same annoying layout and the old gemling legionnaire uniques

at least i only have to go through it once per character now

>>386754764
Most video games have more lore than New Zealand

>>386754586
You're just looking up stupid gimmick builds or endgame Shaper farming ones. You also don't need a guide when you figure out how to make builds correctly, hell half the fun is downloading an offline skill tree and dicking around with exactly what you want in a build.

You can do all the content in the game as a SSF with mediocre rare gear using pretty much any skill.

I don't know what it's called but the are that's like Oriath Square is literally warehouse reskinned and I fucking hate it

>>386754746
>the baron
>for leveling
if you are mega rich maybe lmao
baron is very expensive this league

you can get a queen's decree for leveling though, that's really cheap.

>Complaining about anything but the eternal Vaal city

That's the only bad part desu

>>386755281
>they actually made dread thicket a quest area
the absolute madmen

>>386754854
>>386754891
>>386754909
>>386755204


Ahh okay that all makes so much more sense. Thanks. I'm near the end of Act 2 and never really had a problem with anything. Skellies and Zombies are really great.

It's my first time playing PoE and so far it's been engaging. I'll try and get some of these items though.

So frost skills are really good this league?
I see people using frost blades, frostbolt, glacial cascade and freezing pulse...

What's the most broken OP frost build?

>>386754458

I fucked up the resolution by dragging the window

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>>386755363
if you really want to insist on using skeletons, at least put them on a spell totem so you dont have to waste all your time on resummoning them constantly.

generally i wouldnt bother with skellies at all, just keep your zombies up and pump out raging spirits to kill shit.

pic related is dirt cheap, you can get it for like 2 alchs or 1 chaos on poe.trade.

How do I get my resists up, short of devoting all my gear to them? I just started part 2 and I got fuckin merced in the mud flats.

>>386755978
There are a bunch of new skeleton unique jewels and other stuff, I wonder

>>386756039
jewelry and belt are the easiest to swap around, bismuth flask as a stopgap

>>386756039
That's what you do with gear. On top of the specific stuff you want you try to squeeze in some res rolls as well to end up res capped
If you really can't do it then it's okay to temporarily pick up some big +all res nodes on the tree too if you don't have to go out of your way to get them

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>>386756039
you can get a ton of resistances from rings, especially two-stone rings and prismatic rings.
you can use master crafting to put small resist rolls on other items.
you can get resist nodes in the passive tree if you have some nearby.
you can even run purity of elements if you absolutely need to, but most builds want to run offensive auras instead.

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Best self found or minimal trading build to start? trying it a few years ago was a pain in the ass with how trading works

>free-to-play game
>tfw spent almost $200 in the past five years on it

>>386755363

You don't need the most powerful items to beat the story content, with budget builds you can get pretty far on maps as well. Getting proper uniques is only the difference between your character being ok or your character being really good. Theres an entire game mode of Solo Self Found where you try to beat the content with what you find by yourself, so its definitely doable, just a lot slower and grind-intensive.

>>386756472
Anything with totems if that kind of playstyle is up your alley. Totems give you both a decent damage output and good survivability with literally zero gear.

>>386756052
There's a minion speed support gem i really like. But I bought raging spirits anyway. I need like 5 more Dex to be able to use that sword. I'll get it some how.

>>386748875
Harbinger league drops exalt shards, so its the least boring of all leagues since poes inception

>>386756767

What is the best totem in 3.0?

>>386756852
pizzablast

>>386756472
Trading is about as easy as could be. Perhaps you played before the public facing APIs existed.

Go to poe.trade in your web browser
Look up what you want, and when your find it click the "Whisper" button to get a pre canned message on your clip board that has all the info to wisper the person you want to trade with
Paste it and press enter in game.
Party up, go to their hideout, make the trade

I fucking love that I can browse poe.trade out of game to come up with build ideas based on cost, and its way easier to work with a dual monitor setup then if it was built in to the game.

>>386756820
>minion speed support gem
once you hit level 38, get queen's escape. it's the upgraded version of queen's decree.
this one costs like 7 chaos, but it literally doubles the movement speed of all your minions, which is extremely nice to have. then you can swap your minion speed gem for another damage support gem (minion damage, melee physical damage)

also, put 'melee splash support' on your raging spirits. it makes them do area damage, with that they chew through monsters extremely quickly.

Does Vortex still see any play at all?
The universe space effect mtx it has looks so fucking nice

>>386756472
Anything that isn't a flavour of the month build that requires 7 uniques just to work.

Minions (Including Dominating Blow), Totems, Flameblast, Ice Nova, Freezing Pulse, Glacial Cascade, Ice Crash, Fire Traps, etc are all solid skills that don't really require specific gear. All you really have to find is Life+Resistances, which is very easy for SSF.

>>386756881

takes to long to setup...

>>386756852
Warchief and shockwave are good. Not sure where good ol' flame totem is at right now, but I doubt they nerfed it so should be good too.
Spell totems go best with pizza, firestorm and freeze pulse nowadays.
Avoid ranged attack totems, it's not SSF friendly.

>>386748545
Does anyone actually play this game for long periods of time?
I honestly can't see myself playing league after league, heck I even stop playing in the middle of a league because it gets repetitive as fuck.

>>386748545
>This item is currently unavailable in your region
What did they mean by this?

>>386758087
Are you from China? How is this even possible? They even have ruskie and HUEHUE servers, for fuck's sake.

>>386758068
playing poe for extended amounts of time sucks. there is nothing to do.

better just play at the beginning of a league, do two or three builds, grind out as many challenges as you like, and then drop it until the next league releases, then you repeat the process again.

>>386757107
Oh wow that melee splash support is crazy. I'll try and get that upgraded version when I can. Thank you everyone for the help.

>>386758068
I usually play one league, then skip one, then play one, then skip one etc. Sometimes two in a row perhaps.

Depends on how cool the challenge rewards are and how burnt out I am.

>>386758068

Probably not. Thats common in this game genre though. Back in D2 player numbers also went in waves, me included. You could get hooked for weeks and then have a long pause from the game, then half a year goes by and you're hooked again.

Why are they adding new skills instead of reworking old shit nobody uses anymore? Are you telling me storm burst needed to be a new thing and couldn't just replace lightning tendrils?

>>386759686
Storm Burst is nothing like Lightning Tendrils desu

But I agree, they should give more love to some older unused skills

>>386759846
When you look at something like heavy strike after trying blade flurry, the former simply doesn't look too interesting regardless of damage.

>>386760463
I personally like that not every skill is flashy and "exciting"

A lot of skills in PoE look boring ut so many are also batshit insane looking when you have them skilled up

>>386751473
How about you use a fucking youtube or a guide like everyone else?

>>386762379
>like everyone else
lmoa

Despite knowing that Storm Burst single target was shit, I went for it as my first build anyway.

Fuck this shitty spell. Fuck having to stand still to cast shit without having VP or some way to fucking live. Fuck the time it takes for the balls to reach groups of ranged enemies; resulting in my death. Most of all, fuck the absolutely abysmal single-target damage that prevents me from killing bosses in a timely manner.

>>386748545
gameplay is ok, but the middle of the new chapter is disapointing, the story is grotesque and very stupid now, and many new areas reuses assets that don't really match together (act 1 bis especially is an ugly boring mess). They also made useless areas way too big (probably because they reused maps areas with not much efforts).
And the difficulty spikes are weird, mostly because they haven't really thought about what monsters to put in which areas, some are full of trash, some are 100% ranged death in small corridors and rooms.(Harbringers in those areas are fucking horrible)
I'd say 3.5 will be amazing, but 3.0 is too fresh.

>>386762737
You can use more than a single spell, you know.
And Storm Burst still absolutely deletes everything in a single volley.

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>>386748545
It is fucking impossible to buy any shit is this mess of a game. I am logging in every fucking day for a week and I still can't buy any Sorcerer Gloves, Hubris Circlet or Crystal Belt that I want. I literally can't play my build without them.

People complain about the Diablo 3 AH, but that was a god given gift, because you could do everything automatically and your items could sell even when you were offline. I have a shit ton of trash uniques that I want to sell, but I will never sell them because I am not a poe autist that stays online 24/7.

TL;DR: When will these autist developers install a fucking Auction House for instant buy/sell?

>>386763248
Have you tried poe.trade?

almost done a10

shitcrows kill yourselves

>>386763248
>I literally can't play my build without them.
pft HaHAHAHAHAHAHA
look at this causal shitter that believe the gear is why he's losing.
protip: that gear will not save you if you can't make it in yellow first

>>386763173

If by everything you mean trash white mobs and some blue mobs then you're correct. If by everything you mean anything other than that, you're dead fucking wrong. Not to mention the fact that the volley takes fucking forever to cast while I'm sitting with my fucking pants around my ankles ready to have any multiple of things brutally shoved up my ass.

The skill fucking sucks. There's no build that will make it good.

I'm trying to make a Dark Pact Berserker build. Got to act 6 and I'm getting destroyed. Can't even use Dark Pact because I don't have the right socket item to support it. Only level 48..

What's a good lab build now?

>>386763345
That's where I am trying to buy, but anyone there seems to care.

>>386763489
Are you literally retarded? It is obvious that I am trying to buy top tier rare items you fucking moron. And gear is EVERYTHING in this game, why the fuck do you think the main trade items in this game are gear modification orbs smart-ass? It is exactly because I am not a casual that I am looking for the best rare gear to solo this shit you dumb shit.

>>386763950
don't go fancy for story mode, get a meme build that can match your future build template, then put it on a 4 socket, and roll with it.
You can watch streamers do a fresh character one day, and you'll learn that the game can actually be abused really easily in fun ways.

>>386764497
>Are you literally retarded
No, kid. You are. Go chat with any big player. Get ready to be laughed at by thousands of people.
all builds work with yellow. learn to craft, retard.

As someone that's been playing a lot of Diablo 3's Necromancer and playing the Inarius Corpse Explosion build is there any viable Detonate Dead builds in the fall of Oriath?

>>386764741
there's Radioactive Dead with the Dark Pact - Summon Skeletons interaction

How low can I get Storm Call's duration to? It's at 0.85s down from 1.5s base now but can I get it as low as 0.4s?

>>386764708
Still pretending you know shit about this game? You don't know my build and you don't know how much I know and even so you keep pretending to be le hardcore player. Ok, go play high tier maps with low roll rares, because they don't matter anyway genius.

>>386748545
Pretty fucking good actually...
The more you get inundated by people just saying "it's le shit xDD" the more you know it hurt the blizzdrones D3 numbers.

>>386764708
>all builds work with yellow.

>>386764708
>No, kid. You are. Go chat with any big player. Get ready to be laughed at by thousands of people.
>all builds work with yellow. learn to craft, retard.

good luck playing a mjolner build without mjolner or a whispering ice build without whispering ice

>>386763248
D3's AH was shit for a variety of reasons. Many people spent all their time playing the AH game instead of the actual game because it was far more viable to get decent gear that way. I'm glad it's gone and I'd be glad if trading was gone from PoE as well. The game should be built around being played, not trading for the best items from other people.

>>386765168
Anybody?

>>386767073
I think it's fine, it makes it still exciting to get a good piece of loot even if you can't use it specifically because you can trade it for loot you actually can use. It's not like you can just generate currency out of thin air to buy things from people, you still gotta play.

What are the best skills right now?

Thinking

>sunder
>glacial cascade
>frostbolt
>ED + contagion
>RF
>SRS
>freezing pulse
>dark pact
>shield charge
>cyclone
>ancestral warchief

Did I forget anything?

>>386748545
Act 10 is a pile of ass. Everything else is fine.

>Make cast while channeling whispering Ice build
>Outright doesn't work against Kitava act 5 or the Spider God because they're over open pits

Nice fucking game.

>>386767767
>my build doesn't work on everything boohoo bad gaem

lmao git gud xD

whats the best way to farm Chaos?

>>386769563
>streamer starts new build on stream an says what uniques or charms he's gonna use
>jack up the price to exploit retarded trend followers
>profit

>>386767461
I'd say that's a pretty good list. Cancer arrow maybe.

cast on crit, reave/arctic breath

https://www.pathofexile.com/fullscreen-passive-skill-tree/3.0.0/AAAABAAAAQMeBX0FkwW1B2MOSBB7ES8RlhaqFr8fQSLiIuojMSP2JP0mlSoLKk0rCizhLagwcTB8NZI2PTpCOyg90T8nRwZH4kkTSshLV0t4TDJNklFHVEdVS1pSXfJeRV-wYeJirGh0bIxtbG6qbwhvnnBScFZ3B33jguSDCYcTiFuJa4nTieCKr4wLjDaNfY2_kBGS85SgmhObJptdm7WcpJ2qnsSkOaa-qJqsZrALsZC0xbVItfK31rk-uXy-OsDjwzrII8pKy73N6tQj2E3Ydti92mLbGttZ29Tb592o51TndOjW6xTrY-x07LDxs_KX-ej66_4K_94=

is it shit

I remember vidya talking about that you only need to ivest into health and shields or something like that if you want to play in normal league. Is that so? I only played the game in closed beta.

i play it ssf hardcore with very shit internet, always disconnect but made it to avarius then he kill me with bullet hell fire when he is innocence and almost ded

>>386767662
act 10 is too short, feels too similar to act 5, and the kitava fight is a massive pain in the ass.
merciless malachai was brutal too, but at least you didnt actually have to beat him before accessing maps. kitava on the other hand completely cockblocks your character progression.

Acts 1-9 are good
Act 10 is complete dogshit, the color palette is red on red and everything is overtuned

mapping is still complete shit, I shouldn't have to run the same map 100000 times just for a chance at getting the higher tier map it is connected to

>>386771785
Energy shield is old and busted. Mind over matter is new hotness.

Mapping hasn't been updated, all focus on act 5-10 tuning. I think Act 5 and 10 need slight nerfs at the least.

Once mapping is updated with new maps and shit the game will be even better so I'm hyped.

>>386774314
>Mind over matter is the new hotness
>I have a legacy cloak of defiance from last league
HAHAHA my luck was bad but now it's good

>>386748545
What's the verdict?
>Same shallow, 1-dimensional gameplay.
>Builds degenerate into the same 1-button shit while maintaining leech equilibrium.
>Engame activities degenerate into the same carrot chase.
>Same shitty bosses and enemies that pose virtually zero threat or one shot you.
It least they got rid of replaying the same shit over-and-over while leveling, so that's a genre first for them.

its good, i got addicted, help me

>>386774730
That's not even a genre first.

shitters dying to st trash and kitava
GIT GUD

>>386767461
frost blades, scorching ray, blade vortex

complete newbie here, Necro SRS or Beserker Sunder? which is more fun/safe

>>386748545
Its too hard for new players, casual players and casual new players.

Fucking shut it down.

>>386776621
srs more fun, zerker more safe

>>386776621
berserker aw totems for maximum fun

>>386750687
>>386750750
it's 109% total now

>>386748545
I remember playing PoE like 2 years ago and getting bored since I couldn't get good drops and farming was repetitive.

How does it hold up to D3 these days? I was thinking about trying out D3, but I heard that game was bad too but for different reasons.